Karukera
There are 72 rums from the Karukera distillery in the RumX database.
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Japoniani Rhum Vieux Agricole
Top review from SaibotZtar :
"Delicious fruity spicy nose with red fruits nutmeg... Slightly peppery. On the palate very floral floral peppery ... some orange and red berries ... In the finish then somewhat bitter dry. For me, the taste doesn't quite deliver what the nose promises."
Fût 65 Single Cask
Top review from Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰:
"08.12.2018 Had a wonderful meet up with old and new friends at this wonderful hotel. Notes. Medium dark colour. Nose: fresh, wood, roasted, fruit, vegetal, spice. Palate: round, oily, wood, spicy, earthy, dried fruit, light coffee. Finish: medium to long, wood, vegetal, light chocolate, faint caramel."
Flora Antillarum
Top review from Giorgio Garotti:
"The best in the series to my taste!Intense complex one part vegetal, one part citrus mixed with tropical fruits and a bit more bitter provided by the cask!Karukera with its casks always confirms itself as one of the best!"
L‘Expression
Top review from Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰:
"Thinking about the price tag on this bottle you get a lot for your buck! The nose is fruity with roasted wood, sugarcane and vanilla and if you leave the empty glass you will also pick up a lovely chocolate note. The palate is also fruity with roasted wood, vanilla, chocolate and a hint of tobacco. The finish is medium long with wood, fruits, spices and a bit of tobacco."
Millésime
Top review from Frank:
"I'm curious and definitely have to try more of Karukera, I've heard some good things; but this one is a bit thin at just over 46%. Nose: spicy, fruity and green. At first, however, soft, Danish sweet licorice is up front, followed by fennel seeds and light caraway. Herbaceous with camomile and saffron. The fruit is green fig and fresh guava. However, the overall impression is slightly woody with rather fresh wood. There is also a slight sweetness of sugar water. Beautiful nose, but somewhat short and flat. 83 Palate: initially it seems thin, but then a nice spiciness quickly emerges. It is slightly salty with caraway and a little nutmeg, plus aniseed or licorice. There is also some fruit, a mixture of plum and cherry and fresh guava again. On the finish, it becomes increasingly grassy and herbal, almost with a hint of cucumber and sugar cane juice at the end. 79 If this rhum had more %%, it would be even nicer..."
Cuvée Christophe Colomb 1493 Hors d‘Age
Top review from Stefan Persson:
"The quite long finish goes the same way as at the palate. This brand was founded 2002 when Guillaume Drouin teamed up with Francois Longueteau at the Esperance/Longueteau Distillery to create an Agricole made from blue cane. Karukera is by the way the Carib’s name on Guadeloupe."
Millésime L‘Expression
Top review from Godspeed:
"Ok now we are getting into the slightly more premium side of Karukera as this bottle will set you back about 100€ today. Lots of wood and barrel on nose and palate. Well-integrated alcohol. ABV is just right here, not sure it could support more but definitely wouldn't want less either. The bitter note, which I'm starting to suspect is a Karukera signature, is present but is much better and more enjoyable than in the 2009 select cask. Very noticeable caramel. Medium to short finish. Price to quality is mediocre, but it's a very enjoyable rum nevertheless."
Double Distillat 2008 2013
Top review from Maxime Clr 🇫🇷:
"A fine product! On the palate, caramel, coconut and citrus mingle with leather. Very pleasant to have a mix of agricultural and molasses. Great fun to drink, very, very good indeed! Finish a little short, however. Unfortunately, the price is far too high."
L'Intense
Top review from Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰:
"19.12.2020 Nice tasting shortly before Christmas in a private area of the bar. Unfortunately this very old bar closed down in 2023. Notes Clear in colour. Nose Fresh, intense, Agricole, grass, citrus, light floral. Palate Warm, fresh, Agricole, grass, citrus, floral. Finish Long, warm, citrus, sugarcane."
Millésime
Top review from Godspeed:
"Quite astringently alcoholic nose, mixed with some white chocolate. Not inviting but not unpleasant either. On the palate a completely different world opens up. Delicious exotic spices, slight caramel, tropical fruits (papaya in particular) all tantalizingly offset by the best expression so far of the signature Karukera dry bitter note. It's really good and makes you eager for the next sip. Excellent depth, medium to perhaps long finish. Probably could have supported even more ABV to punch the complexity outward even more, because there is a lot here. Easily the best Karukera I've tried so far. After my 3cl sample ran out I immediately wished I had more which is the sign of a really good one."
L'Expression - Brut de Fût
Top review from TheRhumhoe:
"An agricultural rum brut de fût that shows that even with a young age the complexity and the aromas can be there. The nose is very exuberant, between the vegetal notes that bring freshness, the aromas of coffee, chocolate, nuts and spices that give body and the fruity notes that round off the angles, the mixture of flavors is balanced and deep. The attack in the mouth is dry but very round, the wood and spicy notes blending perfectly with the tobacco and tropical fruit notes. The caramel and herbaceous notes are discreet but complete the aromatic profile well. The relatively long finish extends the pleasure with peppery, earthy and toasty notes. A very solid Karukera, complex, tasty and fresh."
L'Expression - Brut de Fût
Top review from Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰:
"#4649 09.03.2024 relaxing at home with some nice samples from a good friend. Nose Wood, light roasted, plum, dried fruit, spices, sugarcane, floral. Palate Wood, light roasted, spices, intense, medium dry, plum, fruity, faint chocolate, floral. Finish Medium to long, wood, prunes, floral, light chocolate, light coffee. ABV is pretty well integrated and the rum needs to rest. The empty glass has some citrus and sugarcane."
Single Cask
Top review from Steffmaus🇩🇰:
"One of 6 samples I brought for a trip to Turkey. From the first go, this didn't register with me as an agricole in the nose. Vanilla, and a faint, grassy sweetness. In the notes I got sugarcane, vanilla and woody notes"
Millésime (LMDW)
Top review from Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰:
"18.01.2020 A nice little summer house meet up in ght cold part of the year. Good we had rums to keep us warm. Notes Medium dark in colour. Nose Light wood, fruity, orange, light vanilla, dried fruit, light mint, faint licorice. Palate Wood, warm, fruity, orange, spices, medium dry, fresh. Finish Wood, fruits, light salty, orange, light licorice, faint vegetal."
Single Cask 10ème Anniversaire Christian De Montaguère
Top review from Frank:
"Speziell und dadurch doch interessant… Nase: als erstes überrascht ein muffiger, schwefeliger Geruch, der sich mit Kakao-Bohnen, Vanille, Kaffee und Nougat doch zu einem harmonischen Ganzen verbindet. Er wirkt einerseits wurzelig, kräuterig mit getrockneten Pilzen und andererseits würzig-fruchtig, mit Kümmel und Schokorosinen. Anders find ich gut. 8,2 Gaumen: auch wieder anders. Hat einen durchaus süßen Antritt und kommt dann wieder mit dem Schwefel und viel malziger Schokolade. Würzig mit Salz, Kümmel und Lakritze, Tonkabohne und Mokka mit Nougat und etwas Honig. Hinten pflanzlich mit Safran. Irgendwie doch gut. 8,4 Glaube schon, dass sich hier die Geister scheiden. Ich finde diese deutliche Schwefel-Schoko-Note irgendwie andersartig-gut."
Select Casks
Top review from Stefan Persson:
"It’s a nice, smooth, subtle and complex Agricole from nose via palate to the medium long finish. The nose have recognizable aromas of spices, vanilla, oak and fruits. At the palate and during the medium long finish the aromas comes back as flavors."
Black Edition Alligator
Top review from Stefan Persson:
"Bought this Rhum from Catawiki to a very good price together with some other bottles. Karukera is produced by the Esperance distillery in Guadeloupe that also produces Longuetau. Karukera is the name the indigenous people called their island which means 'The island of beautiful waters'. It’s distilled in the distillery’s column still, but the details how it has been aged differs, some says for seven years in French bourbon and cognac barrels others says five years in new charred barrels. Maybe there are two different ones. Overall a super smooth and round Rhum that probably is a very good introduction to Rhum from Guadeloupe."
Réserve Spéciale Rhum Vieux Agricole
Top review from Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰:
"First off the price matches what you get. A medium fruity rum with a warm/spicy touch on the palate. I like the light nutty notes and the empty glass reveals even stronger notes of chocolate and wood."
L'Intense
Top review from Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰:
"#4080 Again a great bargain when looking at what you get. A very fresh white with very good ABV integration. Lightly fruity with cane and vegetal notes. Draws pretty nice curtains in the glass and the empty glass has some copper and grass."
Blanc Agricole
Top review from Stefan Persson:
"Karukera Blanc is produced from Blue Cane at The Esperance distillery in Guadeloupe. The Esperance distillery also produce the brand Longueteau. Overall an sensationally sweet, soft and smooth Agricole Blanc which I found perfect in a Ti Punch"
Rhum Vieux Agricole
Top review from TheRhumhoe:
"A Karukera that looks quite young on paper, but already has a lot to offer, especially on the nose. Woody, toasty, fruity (citrus, dried fruit, coconut), spicy, greedy on cocoa and mocha before being overtaken by unexpected floral notes, this Karukera has a seductive, balanced profile. The rum is equally pleasant on the palate. There's a fruity structure, bordered by spices, with a hint of cocoa, woody notes of lightly toasted toast and an earthy touch that dries out the palate. Gentle yet expressive, with a masterful overall impression. The finish is warm and spicy, with almost empyreumatic notes of walnut and roasting. An effective, well-crafted rum, perhaps a little pricey but well-fleshed out for only 3 years' ageing."
Gold
Top review from MarcT:
"At first I thought: where did I last have that smell? It was, naturally, a sugarcane syrup. I therefore was expecting a quite sweet experience, but this is really the opposite. Other tastes fall a bit flat, though, but I get a strong woody note to the end."
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Popular independent bottlers of Karukera
- Velier 4 rums
- V&B 1 rum
- Claude Marsolle 1 rum
- Christian de Montaguère 1 rum
About the Karukera distillery
The Karukera distillery is located in Guadeloupe. Rums from Karukera have been reviewed 844 times with an average of 8.0/10.
To KarukeraAll rums from Karukera
- Karukera Black Edition Alligator 4yr 45% RX715
- Karukera L'Expression - Brut de Fût 2019 1yr 50,1% RX7594
- Karukera Select Casks 2009 7yr 45% RX2219
- Karukera L'Expression - Brut de Fût 2020 60,2% RX11983
- Karukera Réserve Spéciale Rhum Vieux Agricole 5yr 42% RX585
- Velier Karukera Japoniani Rhum Vieux Agricole 2009 11yr 58,2% RX7198
- Velier Karukera Flora Antillarum 2009 12yr 60,4% RX12788
- Karukera Cuvée Christophe Colomb 1493 Hors d‘Age 45% RX6383
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